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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
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Oct 22, 2021 • 17 tweets • 15 min read • Read on X
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1. Shining the Spotlight on Dr. Marion Koopmans

via @angoffinet and @uacjess

Principal Investigator

erasmusmc.nl/en/research/re…

"Erasmus MC is closely involved with EcoHealth Alliance"

erasmusmc.nl/en/research/de…

(under collaboration)

2. Don't forget to send that email to SAGO@who.int

with subject:

“Public comments on SAGO members” by 27 October 2021

3. Marion Koopman's COIs summarised

4. Wuhan Lab Leak "Debunked"

De KNAW. (2020). KNAW-symposium: Het nieuwe coronavirus - Marion Koopmans [YouTube Video]. Retrieved from

Minute 14:00
5. You Tube Q and A

Dr Marion Koopmans on the WHO Investigation of the Origins of the Pandemic



"we found not a grain of evidence for a lab leak theory"

Minute: 2:10
6. PR for WIV

Marion Koopmans doing PR for WIV:

"It's It's certainly not a big big thing"

WHO team scientist: Wuhan lab workers did fall sick in autumn of 2019

nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…

7. Insert And Backbone?

"we need to talk about the backbone too, not just the insert"



Unredacting Koopman's email may have been an error
8. "Ask Marion" Part 1

(English Translation) 11/06/2021 by @hommel_b

janbhommel.nl/ask-marion-1-e…
9. "Ask Marion" Part 2

(English Translation) 20/06/202 by @hommel_b

janbhommel.nl/ask-marion-2-e…

Archived: archive.ph/Gczf3
10. "Ask Marion" Part 3

(English Translation) 05/07/2021 by @Hommel_bee

Two names are missing under this Lancet letter, while one would expect them, Marion Koopmans and Ron Fouchier...

janbhommel.nl/ask-marion-3-e…

Archived: archive.ph/ajgMx
11. Why did Koopmans not sign the Lancet Letter?

On Feb 7, 2020, Daszak sent an email to Colwell with a list of people they want to approach to sign the statement, including Osterhaus, Koopmans and Haagmans. Haagmans signed it. Koopmans will not.

The question remains; why not?
12. "Ask Marion" Part 4

20/07/2021 by @Hommel_be

"Koopmans liked it all. Whether it was China’s repeated delay of the mission, the lack of raw data, China’s veto over the composition of the team Marion Koopmans did not speak a single word of criticism"

janbhommel.nl/ask-marion-4-t…
12. Gain of Function

"I strongly suspect that this successful Gain-of-function investigation by Ron Fouchier is the reason why Marion Koopmans and he did not sign the letter to The Lancet"
13. Funding
" For Koopmans and Fouchier too, if it were proven that the SARS-CoV-2 virus had escaped from the WIV, it would have disastrous consequences getting funds for Gain-of-function experiments with influenza viruses, just as it would have for Ralph Baric"
14. Funding (2)

Under "Research Projects"

erasmusmc.nl/en/research/re…

Anyone got a Calculator, or a little Dutch Abacus?
15. Erasmus MC, EcoHealth Alliance,Koopmans

Thick as Thieves, Virus Thieves!



@uacjess
16. Unroll Marion Koopmans @threadreaderapp

and send that email to SAGO@who.int

with subject:

“Public comments on SAGO members” by 27 October 2021

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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 9
“We are not a Cult”

DRASTIC and the investigative network that broke the Corona laboratory taboo

Must Read Interview!

The hard working "Two Ronnies" of DRASTIC

@gdemaneuf & @BillyBostickson

Interviewed by @franzbecchi for @berlinerzeitung

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…
1. Who are the “pandemic detectives”?

We speak with 2 of DRASTIC's prominent members:

@gdemaneuf (a data scientist & engineer)

and @BillyBostickson, longtime activist who was formerly part of opposition networks in China & HK & who operates anonymously for security reasons.
@gdemaneuf 2. My Responses

How did DRASTIC come about?

I started in January 2020, triggered by an article by Dan Sirotkin on the origins of the virus.

I connected with people like @R_H_Ebright & others on Twitter.

In May 2020, I chose the name "DRASTIC" for this decentralized group.
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May 8
22. Biased Sampling distorts Geography!

They use a dataset skewed toward Yunnan & Laos (p. 16), leading to phylogeographic models that place SARS-CoV ancestors far from Wuhan & Guangdong (p. 12).

This sampling bias undermines the reliability of their geographic inferences.
23. Neglecting Alternative Hypotheses

No SARS-CoV-like viruses near emergence sites?

They completely overlook non-bat reservoirs, like civets or pangolins, which could explain local circulation (p. 15).

This omission weakens their claim of distant ancestor origins (p. 12).
24. Inconsistent Molecular Clock Rates

The paper misuses variable NRR-specific clock rates, which give inconsistent SARS-CoV ancestor dates (e.g., 1944–2014 for SARS-CoV-2, p. 9).

Without any validation of bat-specific rates, this approach has no rational grounding (p. 14).
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May 8
5. Why did they resort to using the POW model?

To show that :

"our inferences of the time of the ancestors of human SARS-CoVs and their closest bat sarbecoviruses are UNBIASED"
6. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (1)

"we show that the ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in horseshoe bat populations 100s to 1000s km away from the sites of the emergence of these viruses in humans & as recently as one to six years prior to this emergence"
7. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (2)

"Our findings indicate that there would not have been sufficient time for the direct bat virus ancestor to reach the locations of emergence of the human SARS-CoVs via normal dispersal through bat populations alone"
Read 12 tweets
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May 8
1. Last sick joke of the Zoonati?

Fragments of human SARS-CoVs share recent common ancestors with bat viruses

SARS-CoV-like viruses have circulated in Asia for millennia

Ancestors of human SARS-CoVs likely circulated in China & Laos

Ancestors traveled unexpectedly fast
2. No Pangolins allowed!

There is insufficient temporal signal when calibrating a molecular clock using tip dating with sarbecoviruses sampled from bats & pangolins, likely as a consequence of limited sampling across space & time.

Therefore, we used SARS-CoV-1 genomes!
3. Definitely no pangolins!

As sampling locations of SARS-CoV-1, 2 & pangolin sarbecoviruses likely do not represent where their direct bat virus ancestors circulated, we EXCLUDED their locations from phylogeographic analyses to avoid the IMPACT of dispersal of non-bat hosts!
Read 24 tweets
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May 4
1⃣ Virological 🦠 Whistleblower 😮‍💨?

"I worked with researchers in this space - virology + combatting future pandemics - in the decade before the pandemic".
2⃣ One Fact

"The one fact that the last 5 years never readily disclosed is that the core ideology of this community of researchers was fundamentally divided"
3⃣ Lab based creation of super-viruses

"About half of the researchers, including many leading virologists whose names appeared in the news, believed and argued passionately for the lab-based creation of super-viruses and super-bacteria"
Read 12 tweets
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Apr 23
1. The Second Lab Leak

Turning and turning in the petri dish,
The scientists cannot hear the warnings;
Genes recombine; the barriers cannot hold,
Evil virology is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
2. The Second Lab Leak

The best lack critical thinking, while the professors
Are full of furious bias.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the cover up is now banned?
Lab Leak! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Human Folly
Troubles my sight:
3. Somewhere in Wuhan

somewhere in the cell lines of a Chinese laboratory
A shape with pangolin body and the head of a bat,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its long tongue, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant molested bats.
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